OpenStack Community Newsletter –February 17, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS TryStack.org – A Sandbox for OpenStack is live http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/trystack-org-a-sandbox-for-openstack/ The brand new API reference website http://api.openstack.org/ SoftLayer announced its Object Storage product built on OpenStack Swift http://blog.softlayer.com/2012/softlayer-openstack-swift-softlayer-object-storage/ Action needed: OpenStack Governance Elections http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/openstack-governance-elections-spring-2012/ Setting up the OpenStack Foundation: video of the meetup in Santa Clara http://www.collierclan.net/mark/?p=425 A draft… Read more »
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OpenStack Governance Elections Spring 2012
The time is once again upon us for our OpenStack Governance Elections. The OpenStack community is called to elect the Project Technical Leads and two seats of the Project Policy Board. The election committee is made of Stefano Maffulli, Lloyd Dewolf and Dave Nielsen. February 16 – 26 11:59 PST: Nominations open. February 28 –… Read more »
Community Weekly Review (Feb 3-10)
OpenStack Community Newsletter –February 10, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS OpenStack Bug Squashing day was a success and we should repeat it (see graphs below) OpenStack Foundation Update http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-February/000123.html Ceph Lords meetup in San Francisco has links to recorded presentations http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/recap-ceph-lords-openstack-sf-meetup-feb-02/ Feedback from FOSDEM 2012 meetings http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/fosdem-2012-feedback/ and a visual https://twitter.com/#!/smaffulli/status/165746062181670912/photo/1 Canonical published guide to automatic testing on… Read more »
Recap: “Ceph Lords” OpenStack SF Meetup Feb 02
On February 2nd, a league of extraordinary gentlemen gathered inside a crowded chamber for the “Ceph Lords” OpenStack SF Meetup. About 75 Stackers were in attendance making this event a smashing success! If you missed this Meetup, then you should watch the recorded presentations in order to experience the lively discourse. Also, check out the… Read more »
OpenStack Talk hosted by the Computer Society of India Pune Chapter
This is a guest post from Devdatta Kulkarni. Thanks Dev for sharing! The Computer Society of India (CSI) Pune chapter organized an OpenStack talk with me, Racker Devdatta Kulkarni, on Saturday January 21, 2012 from 5.00 pm – 6.30 pm. Approximately 35 people attended. The audience primarily consisted of people with a technical background. Technology… Read more »
OpenStack Design Summit & Conference Updates
We’re making progress on the next OpenStack Design Summit (April 16-18) & Conference (April 19-20) at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco — one week, two events. Hotel Rooms We have a discounted hotel room block at the Hyatt under OpenStack, which is now available to book. Please make sure to designate yourself with the OpenStack… Read more »
Community Weekly Review (Jan 20-27)
OpenStack Community Newsletter –January 27, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS OpenStack Bug Squashing Day Is Coming On Feb 2nd http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/01/the-first-openstack-bug-squashing-day-is-coming-on-feb-2nd/ and you can follow its evolution on http://wiki.openstack.org/bugstats/ Meet OpenStack developers at FOSDEM http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/openstack-developers-meeting-at-fosdem/ OpenStack Jenkins dashboard available for testing Ubuntu snapshots http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/01/openstack-jenkins-dashboard-available-for-testing-ubuntu-snapshots/ GrydDynamics team contributed a billing plugin for Horizon https://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/billing-plugin-for-horizon OpenStack Australian community had another successful meetup… Read more »
Community Weekly Review (Jan 13 – 20)
OpenStack Community Newsletter –January 20, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS The First OpenStack Bug Squashing Day Is Coming On Feb 2nd http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/01/the-first-openstack-bug-squashing-day-is-coming-on-feb-2nd/ Making more solid OpenStack releases http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/making-more-solid-openstack-releases/ Performance testing tool for Glance https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06724.html OpenStack Nova and Glance 2011.3.1 released https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06834.html GridDynamics released “nova-billing”, resource usage accounting system for OpenStack http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/resource-usage-accounting-system-for-openstack/ Dan Prince and Russell Bryant giving an… Read more »
Recording of OpenStack Foundation mission and roadmap
For those that couldn’t participate to past week’s webinar, here is the recording of Mark Collier and Jonathan Bryce presenting the draft mission of OpenStack Foundation and its roadmap. (The audio starts around minute 2:50). A total of 86 people participated to the events, 51 on Thursday and 35 on Friday. Since the chat was… Read more »
The First OpenStack Bug Squashing Day Is Coming On Feb 2nd
Shine your keyboards, hackers of OpenStack: on February 2nd 2012 you will be called to fight the ever growing number of bugs that keep creeping in our beloved code. On Bug Squashing Day all the OpenStack developer community will focus mainly on Nova to: Close old fixed bugs. Old bugs are nasty. Even when they… Read more »